Intrusive advertising - automatic audio playing, video, crashing page

[J. Martin]

Is anyone else having problems with intrusive advertising on BP pages?

I have recently experienced several times when music starts blasting from an unknown window I am not on, and it's my open BP page. The ad says "Viewster" at the top, and is for a Verizon something..

I try to click the ad to stop the sound or video, but the page repeatedly crashes. I lost a few long posts, trying to help others out, in the process :(

@Brandon Turner and @Joshua D. ,

Just wanted to let you know.. No Bueno!

Otherwise, the website and all the great networking rocks :)

[Joshua D.]

Please note that we'd NEVER sell an ad that would do such a thing, but it is possible that there is an ad coming from one of our ad networks that is doing what you're saying.  We put in a block for the URL for viewster, and hopefully that rectifies the situation.

In the future, if something like that happens, having a screenshot of the ad would be very helpful, but again, hopefully just blocking the domain resolves this.

Sorry for the annoyance, guys.